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VIDEO: The “Missing Middle” in Vancouver’s Housing Density Debate

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Via The Tyee:

When you think of high urban density, you might think of big land assembly projects that end up in blockbusting towers. It doesn’t have to be that way. There’s a “missing middle” between towers and single-family homes.

Urban design experts Patrick Condon and Scot Hein tour some Vancouver projects to show that density can also come at a comfortable scale, whether it’s by repurposing a car repair shop or cloning a heritage house.

Edited and photographed by Christopher Cheung. Music by Kevin MacLeod used under a CCAL.

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